team & careers

Andrew Salzberg directs the Aviation Initiative at Climate Imperative, focused on decarbonizing aviation fuels and developing solutions to mitigate contrail warming. 

Andrew has two decades of work experience in the fields of transportation, technology, and climate change mitigation.  In addition to his work at Climate Imperative, Andrew is a lecturer at MIT, where he created a first-of-its-kind Decarbonizing Transportation course and sits on the board of directors of MobilityData. In 2020, he served as a transportation and climate change policy advisor to the Biden presidential campaign. From 2019-2020, he was a Loeb fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. 

Before the Loeb fellowship, Andrew worked at Uber, where he created their first sustainability team, led the development of the first data-sharing tool for government agencies, and spearheaded Uber’s support for “congestion pricing” around the world. Prior to joining Uber, Andrew worked at the World Bank on a team that developed a multi-billion dollar lending program for China’s transport and urban development. He holds a B.A. of Civil Engineering from McGill University and an Master in Urban Planning from Harvard.